### 31.2 Understanding how to use CSS

If you are not familiar with CSS, here are some good starting points, tutorials, and reference sites:

http://websitetips.com/css/index.shtml

http://www.mako4css.com/Tutorial.htm

http://www.w3schools.com/css/

http://www.thenoodleincident.com/tutorials/index.html

http://www.alistapart.com/

Also the spectacular and inspiring:

http://www.csszengarden.com/

And a few books:

Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, by Eric A. Meyer

The basics of creating, saving, formatting, and linking to CSS: HTML for the World Wide Web with XHTML and CSS, by Elizabeth Castro

Cascading Style Sheets: Designing for the Web, by Hakon Lie and Bert Bos (Note: Hakon Lie is the W3C designer of CSS)

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31.6 Linking to alternate CSS files

31.7 Assigning CSS classes

31.8 Customizing CSS properties